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John Selden on Humility

1584–1654 England

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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear.

Table Talk: Being the Discourses (1786)

There is Humilitas quaedam in Vitio [humility taken to a fault]. If a Man does not take notice of that excellency and perfection that is in himself, how can he be thankful to God, who is the Author of all excellency and perfection?

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